Organisation

This tree is an alternative directory organisation providing access
to many java-related distributions and jars developed by Extreme! Lab

We have organised the
files here so that a software utility knows where to find a certain
file. The organisation is as follows:

/dist/java-repository -- base directory
${project-name}/distributions/ -- directory containing distributions
(usually in .zip and/or .tar.gz form)
${project-name}/jars/ -- directory containing jar files
that are named ${project-name}-${version}.jar
${project-name}/licenses/ -- directory containing legal and
licensing information. Normally contains a file named
${project-name}.license which is the license governing the jar
files provided in ${project-name}/jars/. If a license is not
provided, the jar is likely to be governed by the standard
which can be found at
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/LICENSE.txt. However, do not assume
this, and please contact us or
the appropriate project team so that the license can
be added to the repository.

This directory layout was pioneered and is supported by the Maven project, and
is supported to various levels in other build-related projects like Ant.